#61 What is the meaning of YOUR life?

What is the meaning of YOUR life?

When you picture “therapy,” what comes to mind?  Perhaps reflecting on one’s upbringing, experiences, emotions, and behaviors?

Logotherapy – or “healing through meaning” – takes a more future-focused approach, as it’s based on the premise that our primary motivational force is to find meaning in our lives.

Logotherapy was founded by Austrian Neurologist and Psychiatrist, Dr. Viktor E. Frankl, who published Man’s Search for Meaning in 1946.  This inspiring autobiography documents Frankl’s three years surviving four concentration camps during the Holocaust.

Describing his fellow prisoners, Frankl writes:

“They offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way . . . whoever was still alive had reason for hope . . . whatever we had gone through could still be an asset to us in the future.”